A dual-process integrator-resonator model of the electrically stimulated human auditory nerve

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 84-104

  Macherey, Olivier ^a   Carlyon, Robert P ^b   Van Wieringen, Astrid ^a   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Computational model; Electrical stimulation; Nonmonotonicities; Subthreshold oscillations; Subthreshold resonance; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RELAXATION TIME;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERIODICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33846811556     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-006-0066-3     Document Type: Article

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